EL PASO — "Oligarchic" was the word that ruled for Olivia Weinbaum, who won the El Paso Times 69th annual Spelling Bee earlier today at Bel Air High School.

"I heard of it and sort of knew it, but I wasn't sure of the third letter," Weinbaum said. "When I got it right, that was so exciting I felt like jumping up and down."

For nine rounds, Weinbaum, an eighth-grader at Lynn Middle School in Las Cruces, and Garrison Whetten, a fifth-grader from Gonzalo and Sofia Garcia Elementary School, went back and forth until Weinbaum was finally able to seal the victory.

"I got more nervous as it went on," Weinbaum said. "Some of them I didn't know at all. I just took guesses."

Whetten said he was proud finishing second and looks forward to next year's competition.

"You know what, I'm glad I made it this far," he said. "I'm cool with how it went."

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